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TwoKopeiki Pillar of the Community Czech Republic 803 Posts	Posted 08/21/2020 08:53 am Report this Post to the Staff

TwoKopeiki Pillar of the Community Czech Republic 803 Posts	Posted 08/21/2020 10:05 am From the same coin: Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34423 Posts	Posted 08/21/2020 10:47 am @2k, interesting--how many of these are chop marks as opposed to being stray circulation marks? "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
TwoKopeiki Pillar of the Community Czech Republic 803 Posts	Posted 08/21/2020 10:58 am I'm fairly confident all 4 I posted so far are chops. Report this Post to the Staff
jgenn Pillar of the Community United States 1156 Posts	Posted 08/21/2020 4:32 pm swamperbob has mentioned that chops were deliberately placed on faces for humorous effect on occasion. Report this Post to the Staff
swamperbob Pillar of the Community United States 5362 Posts	Posted 08/21/2020 8:56 pm The eye punch in particular has been written about in several places. I have read that punching they eye was done to "kill" any evil spirit that the coin may harbor. The really randomly placed chops are in some cases fakes. Like the swastika chops that mark some known counterfeit coins. The swastika resembles a genuine chop (Wan) but is reversed like the one used in Nazi Germany. If you see those be VERY suspicious. Report this Post to the Staff
jgenn Pillar of the Community United States 1156 Posts	Posted 08/21/2020 11:05 pm My apologizes, swamperbob. I misremembered what you had said about the significance of some of those chops. Report this Post to the Staff
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